Time machine cannot make a backup

I use Mountain Lion 10.8.4. Recently my Time Machine started to behave wierdly: when backup is going, expected backup size is always by few GB larger than completed part. So that at one point of time it's 70 of 74 GB's done, after that it's 71 of 75 and so on until backup volume runs out of space.
Reported backup size for my system (inside time machine configuration, with some directories excluded), is about 75 GB's. When the backup is failing, it gets as high as 200+ GBs.
For me it looks like some kind of hard link directory loop what "generates" data over and over.
I've already tried emptying the TM volume. Also the Disk Utility doesn't find any problem with volume (which is backupped) data.
What's the best course of action in this kind of problem solving?
Some logs:
Starting automatic backup
Backup failed with error: 19
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://[email protected]/TimeMachine
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/TimeMachine using URL: afp://[email protected]/TimeMachine
Disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/MacBook Pro - Yury.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Forcing deep traversal on source: "SSD HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 4DDFD444-D060-3885-BF8B-3E75C6CBBF34 eventDBUUID: BB319D29-3CE3-4BE7-A684-B7B56413FCFE)
Warning: Bytes to copy estimate was negative (-8395032716)
Found 1511567 files (104,9 MB) needing backup
104,9 MB required (including padding), 8,6 MB available
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TimeMachine/MacBook Pro - Yury.sparsebundle
Compacting backup disk image to recover free space
Completed backup disk image compaction
Starting automatic backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/TimeMachine
Disk image /Volumes/TimeMachine/MacBook Pro - Yury.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Forcing deep traversal on source: "SSD HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 4DDFD444-D060-3885-BF8B-3E75C6CBBF34 eventDBUUID: BB319D29-3CE3-4BE7-A684-B7B56413FCFE)
Warning: Bytes to copy estimate was negative (-8395032716)
Found 1511567 files (104,9 MB) needing backup
104,9 MB required (including padding), 8,6 MB available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro - Yury/2013-07-12-142217.inProgress/19245C51-4270-4E30-936E-0A20D8CACAC3 containing 168,68 GB; 168,69 GB now available, 104,9 MB required
Deleted 1 backups containing 168,68 GB total; 168,69 GB now available, 104,9 MB required
Indexer unavailable due to disk space.
Stopping backup.
Error: (-34) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/A/Resources/A dobeCrashDaemon.app/Contents/_codesignature/CodeResources to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro - Yury/2013-07-12-142217.inProgress/8D4C46F6-145E-4D54-97D2-13311BFD16DE/SSD HD/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/a/resources/A dobeCrashDaemon.app/Cont

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